Fox News' Right Wing Native-American Is A Fraud?

While those on Fox are constantly whining about Christians getting no respect, Fox endorses mascots which are disrespectful to Native-Americans. And, in order to show that those who are offended are being silly, Fox & Friends has hosted a Native-American conservative to scold them. Thing is, Ellie Reynolds, who claims Oglala membership, isn't part of the tribe!

As the newsroom for white Americans who yearn for the good old days of ethnic stereotyping and caricatures, Fox not only unequivocally supportstheuse of mascots that Native-Americans find offensive, but mocksthose who do have a problem with it. When Colorado proposed a law to require that any high school, with a Native-American mascot, submit the name to a panel of Native-Americans, Brian Kilmeade interviewed Ellie Reynolds, whom he described as a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe. He didn't mention that she is the Vice-President of the Denver Young Republicans was a GOP tracker during the 2014 campaign

Reynolds, predictably, said that she was offended by this measure because it's divisive. (This, on Fox News - oh, the irony!) Kilmeade opined that the offensive names are really compliments and praised her for standing up to this so called political correctness. He didn't mention that the students overwhelmingly supported this.

This past week, Reynolds was back on Fox & Friends to inveigh against a new Minnesota school department policy which bans the use of Native-American mascots on school attire - a measure, like that in Colorado, supported by students. Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who asked if this measure is "political correctness run amok," described Reynolds as a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe. As she did in her former appearance, Reynolds claimed that the school's policy is divisive. She made the even more bizarre claim that banning the mascots is "censoring" Native-American history.

But newsflash - Ellie Reynolds, according to the Oglala Lakota government in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, "is not a citizen of their nation."A spokesperson for the tribe said that "their enrollment office had investigated Reynold’s claim and said she is not on record as having any lineage to their people." Kevin Steele also notes that in order to be considered a member of the tribe, she must be enrolled and she has failed to do so. He states, "I believe it's a fraud."

What makes this even more interesting is that, in addition to claiming Oglala membership, Ellie describes herself, on Twitter, as "a Native-American advocate." However, the Oglala, according to Steele, "have always been opposed to the name of the Washington football team as well as any and all Native American mascots" - a position which with, as we saw on Fox & Friends, Reynolds does not agree. Moreover, she sees any attempt to ban these stereotypes as being harmful to Native-Americans and an infringement on freedom of speech!

Reynolds is not happy and on her Twitter she says that she was "publicly rejected by the Oglala Lakota Tribe for speaking out against their take on Native American mascots" and maintains that her blood is "Native." Suffice to say, her post on Instagram is being met with scorn and derision.

Very interesting. Will Fox News need to find a new Native-American to push "real" American racist propaganda now that this one has been exposed as a fraud?

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When I first saw Reynolds, I flashed on a Thanksgiving episode of “Roseanne.”

In the episode, DJ is taking part in a school play doing a modernized version of the old classic Pilgrim story, only with the Pilgrims being a little more “Pulp Fiction” and using (toy) machine guns to slaughter the Indians. When the play is done, only Roseanne and her family applaud with any vigor (largely because DJ did such a fantastic job of dying on stage) while the majority of the audience gives shocked but polite applause.

When the teacher comes on the stage, he’s a Native American.

One of the women in the audience comes up to Roseanne and asks if Roseanne’s as appalled as she is. And when the teacher comes over, Roseanne gives the play a thumbs up while the other woman expresses her shock. And she feels justified because her great, great, great grandmother was an “authentic Cherokee princess” to which the teacher points out that Native tribes didn’t have princesses. (Roseanne also comes back with “You’re busted. And your roots are brown.”)